Special Treat Viewing Fox News Today

[NoleATL]

I periodically venture into the abyss to hear for myself what is being said on the other "side" of the political spectrum. Joanie Ernst was the guest!!! Here is what I learned...

1. Biden raised the ticket price for the Iowa fair by $2 this year
2. Trump's first amendment rights are being trampled in Georgia
3. Iowans are desensitized to Trump's indictments and believe there's a 2 tier justice system (this must have gone out on the GQP talking points), 1 if your name is Trump, another if Biden
4. In order, Joanie prefers corn dogs, pork chops on a stick, and a funnel cake only if she can share it with someone

Oh, and Fox News actually had a teaser to keep everyone tuned in after the commercial... "Our nation's next crisis, why is there such a teacher shortage".

I almost busted out laughing at that one...

 

[binsfeldcyhawk2]

I almost busted out laughing at that one...

Why?

 

[Hawk_4shur]

Biden controls ticket prices at the Iowa State Fair?

Huh.

 

[fsu1jreed]

Why?

The irony

 

[binsfeldcyhawk2]

Biden controls ticket prices at the Iowa State Fair?

Huh.

Bidenomics

 

[jawatkins]

Why?

Because union busting and fvcking with the curriculum by gop folks is the cause

 

[fsu1jreed]

Because union busting and fvcking with the curriculum by gop folks is the cause

And the stupid anti-woke shit

 

[NoleATL]

Why?

Because of the conservatives' attack on teachers... Now, you can pretend you don't understand.

 

[binsfeldcyhawk2]

Because union busting and fvcking with the curriculum by gop folks is the cause

Why does California have a severe teacher shortage? Obviously isn't the GOP there.

California seeks more teachers to combat widespread shortage

California is facing a teacher shortage so severe and widespread that the state school superintendent held a summit Monday to try to recruit more teachers.

www.nbcbayarea.com

 

[95Hawk]

Why?

Republicans trying to understand why teaching in public schools is so unattractive these days:

Or maybe this one, bins:

 

[jawatkins]

Why does California have a severe teacher shortage? Obviously isn't the GOP there.

California seeks more teachers to combat widespread shortage

California is facing a teacher shortage so severe and widespread that the state school superintendent held a summit Monday to try to recruit more teachers.

www.nbcbayarea.com

Because like everywhere education isn’t valued enough.

 

[binsfeldcyhawk2]

Because of the conservatives' attack on teachers... Now, you can pretend you don't understand.

Illinois, like California...is dark blue.

Survey pushes for greater focus on teacher recruitment and retention amid shortages

Illinois Association of Regional Superintendents of Schools data shows unfilled classroom positions reached a five-year high in 2022

www.sj-r.com

 

[binsfeldcyhawk2]

Because like everywhere education isn’t valued enough.

It's obviously a national problem.

 

[GOHOX69]

I haven't watched fuxks news in more than 8 years. It's heavenly bliss. I don't even know the channel number anymore.

 

[SolarHawk]

Bins, you gotta either be a troll, or you are the most obtuse motherfvcker on the internet. JFC lol

 

[95Hawk]

It's obviously a national problem.

Things that are also national:

1) Moms for Liberty (Karen’s)
2) Lack of funding and prioritization for public education
3) Burnout from Covid
4) Retiring/aging out of current workforce
5) Inconsistent standards

 

[TC Nole OX]

I haven't watched fuxks news in more than 8 years. It's heavenly bliss. I don't even know the channel number anymore.

I quit that garbage in 2006

 

[drew_hawk]

Why?

 

[MitchLL]

As an aside...seeing how the Radical Right is so anti Trans, I wonder what the thought process was in inviting Caitlin Jenner to appear as a guest last nite?

Other than finding pro Trump speakers is becoming increasingly difficult.
It was really creepy to me.

 

[onlyTheObvious]

Crappy parents is the biggest reason for teacher shortage and it isn’t even close.

 

[Randon]

I periodically venture into the abyss to hear for myself what is being said on the other "side" of the political spectrum. Joanie Ernst was the guest!!! Here is what I learned...

1. Biden raised the ticket price for the Iowa fair by $2 this year
2. Trump's first amendment rights are being trampled in Georgia
3. Iowans are desensitized to Trump's indictments and believe there's a 2 tier justice system (this must have gone out on the GQP talking points), 1 if your name is Trump, another if Biden
4. In order, Joanie prefers corn dogs, pork chops on a stick, and a funnel cake only if she can share it with someone

Oh, and Fox News actually had a teaser to keep everyone tuned in after the commercial... "Our nation's next crisis, why is there such a teacher shortage".

I almost busted out laughing at that one...

Joanie believes Trump's first amendment rights are being trampled in Georgia - pray tell, give us some examples Joanie! A more pertinent issue is why Trump has not been slapped with a gag order. His infantile derogatory remarks on social media besmirching both Jack Smith and Fani Willis are beyond the pale and most certainly can be construed as a way to intimidate witnesses and prospective jury pools. Trump is technically out on bail, and like any other indicted defendant, should be subject to the same rules having his bail revoked for his prejudicial remarks.

 

[ironside1]

Crappy parents is the biggest reason for teacher shortage and it isn’t even close.

I agree, this is a big one. Parents attitudes and also their shitty kids. The rights attack on teachers/education has added to it too. A lot of entitled kids that don’t think they have to listen to a teacher nowadays.

 

[MitchLL]

Ernst is lucky Senile Chuck is still around.

This way she's only the second most embarrassing Iowa US Senator.

 

[onlyTheObvious]

I agree, this is a big one. Parents attitudes and also their shitty kids. The rights attack on teachers/education has added to it too. A lot of entitled kids that don’t think they have to listen to a teacher nowadays.

Entitled kids isn’t something “the right” has cornered the market on.

Unless you think the right has a lot of the “ just pick a gender and go where ever the hell you want” is a MAGA thing.

Politics has zero to do with parents that think their kids are angels that never could possible do anything wrong.

 

[EagleHawk]

I haven't watched fuxks news in more than 8 years. It's heavenly bliss. I don't even know the channel number anymore.

Congratulations. You are probably the only Dem on the board that doesn't 'periodically venture into the abyss' then. I don't know that I have ever watched it, but definitely know what they have on thanks to a few dedicated Dems on this board.

 

[TheCainer]

I periodically venture into the abyss to hear for myself what is being said on the other "side" of the political spectrum. Joanie Ernst was the guest!!! Here is what I learned...

1. Biden raised the ticket price for the Iowa fair by $2 this year
2. Trump's first amendment rights are being trampled in Georgia
3. Iowans are desensitized to Trump's indictments and believe there's a 2 tier justice system (this must have gone out on the GQP talking points), 1 if your name is Trump, another if Biden
4. In order, Joanie prefers corn dogs, pork chops on a stick, and a funnel cake only if she can share it with someone

Oh, and Fox News actually had a teaser to keep everyone tuned in after the commercial... "Our nation's next crisis, why is there such a teacher shortage".

I almost busted out laughing at that one...

Hannity and Newt were in rare form on Hannity's show last night. Newt is calling for Congress to defund Jack Smith's prosecutions. The rest of it was pure projection onto the democrats (Obama, Clinton, and Biden) what Trump has been doing. I didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

Newt Gingrich: We are drifting towards the greatest Constitutional crisis since the 1850s​

https://www.foxnews.com/video/6333547137112

NSFS : Not Safe For Sanity

 

[stillh8unlv]

Because of the conservatives' attack on teachers... Now, you can pretend you don't understand.

Now, just he me out here....is it also possible that maybe other reasons may be in play here also?

Like that overall attention deficiency of the human child these days due to social media and devices? I can't imagine my teachers putting up with a 1/10th of what teachers have to put up with today.

I ain't saying the war on woke doesn't play it's part in getting teachers hired either, but 20 something's these days have little to no use for thankless work either. They expect constant affirmation and good pay, not exactly the selling points of teaching.

 

[Tom Paris]

It's obviously a national problem.

Right...but ONE PARTY is attacking us. Clear as day in Iowa. The Republicans made it attack 1 or 2 when they took control...blow up the teachers' union. They took money out of my pocket, especially compared to the rising costs of living.

 

[Tom Paris]

I haven't watched fuxks news in more than 8 years. It's heavenly bliss. I don't even know the channel number anymore.

When something major happens I might turn over but can never make it past 2 minutes because I'm so disgusted by the blatant lying.

 

[alaskanseminole]

Entitled kids isn’t something “the right” has cornered the market on.

Unless you think the right has a lot of the “ just pick a gender and go where ever the hell you want” is a MAGA thing.

Politics has zero to do with parents that think their kids are angels that never could possible do anything wrong.

I'm in a blue city with blue & red parents and blue & red parents suck as a whole.

 

[TennNole17]

I haven't watched fuxks news in more than 8 years. It's heavenly bliss. I don't even know the channel number anymore.

People still use channel numbers?

 

[RollingBallofButcherKnives]

I had a lot of road time today. I needed a break from my podcast so I thought I might turn on Clay and Buck in AM 600. They were talking to some politician whose name I didn’t get about the fake electors. Turns out they were not fake at all! No one believed they were electors anyway. What were they? Contingent electors incase Trump got things overturned at the last second. I had to turn it off at that point….

 

[DropitlikeitsHawk]

Ernst is lucky Senile Chuck is still around.

This way she's only the second most embarrassing Iowa US Senator.

I’d say Diane Feinstein would say hold my beer but that constant pink eye having cvnt could hold her own bladder.

 

[Jan Itor]

Because like everywhere education isn’t valued enough.

So it’s not what you said the first time

 

[Jan Itor]

Bins, you gotta either be a troll, or you are the most obtuse motherfvcker on the internet. JFC lol

It’s not a national problem?

 

[bagdropper]

Fun personal CSB fact - I have never, not once in my entire life - turned on Fox News just for a normal day look-see. Now, full disclosure, I have never really watched any cable news network of any type - about the limit to my news viewing is periodically pulling up the local 6pm news or occasionally flipping through the networks' national news.

The big news events - election nights, huge world stuff (Fukushima, earthquakes/hurricanes, 9/11, etc) - those events I will check out news channels deliberately (usually a network PM broadcast or CNN).

And sure, back in the olden days when with cable or satellite, one channel-surfed via the channel up/down buttons and I may have landed on FN and stuck around for oh...5 seconds before I was instantly bored to near death.

But in my entire life, I have never once picked up the remote and punched in the numbers for Fox News.

Not. Once.

 

[jawatkins]

So it’s not what you said the first time

It’s both

 

[Jan Itor]

It’s both

BoTh SiDeS

 

[lucas80]

As an aside...seeing how the Radical Right is so anti Trans, I wonder what the thought process was in inviting Caitlin Jenner to appear as a guest last nite?

Other than finding pro Trump speakers is becoming increasingly difficult.
It was really creepy to me.

They view Caitlin Jenner like they view one of the good blacks. Tolerable when they are slinging out the talking points and not being uppity.
Jenner's appearance was a desperate plea for attention.

 

[Jan Itor]

They view Caitlin Jenner like they view one of the good blacks. Tolerable when they are slinging out the talking points and not being uppity.
Jenner's appearance was a desperate plea for attention.

Their good blacks. You racist POS